RCN Congress Education, Learning and Development Programme submission form

Please complete this form if you wish to submit a proposal to host a session as part of the Education, Learning and Development Programme (ELDP) at Congress 2025 (12-15 May 2025).

Before you submit your proposal, you may want to read our guidance.

Congress 2025 will be an in-person event and, where agreed and appropriate, ELDP sessions may be recorded so they are available to watch on demand at a time that suits individuals following the event. All ELDP presenters, chairs and panel members are expected to be onsite to deliver their session. For more information, please contact congress@rcn.org.uk.

Please note, only RCN “entities” can submit for this programme. Entities include RCN forums, boards, branches, networks, groups, or RCN departments and country/region offices. The RCN entity will be asked to confirm and agree the submission before it is sent for review.

The closing date for applications is 5pm, Wednesday 8 January 2025.

As only RCN “entities” can submit for this programme, applications made on behalf of third parties by RCN “entities” are not permissible. For all other enquiries including exhibiting please contact congressexhibition@rcn.org.uk.

Submission details

First name Last name RCN membership number Preferred email contact Mobile Address Postcode If someone else will be the main point of contact for organising the session, please provide their contact details. Please provide their name, contact address, email and phone number:

Congress 2025 Education, Learning and Development Programme

The ELDP will be aligned with the RCN Institute, the organisation’s own centre of excellence for education, learning, research and policy. As such, the themes for the programme have been linked to each of the institute’s five academies – nursing workforce, nursing practice, nursing leadership, international nursing, and activism.

The themes are:

Nursing Practice Academy: Clinical and practice development - education, learning, research, digital transformation
Nursing Leadership Academy: Leadership and management
Nursing Practice Academy: Regulation, quality improvement and innovation
All Academies: Wellbeing, mental health and self-care
Activism and Nursing Workforce Academies: Workforce – recruitment, development and retention, organising for change, safe staffing, pay, terms and conditions

International Nursing Academy may apply to any of the themes.

Please select one theme for your submission:

Clinical and practice development
Leadership and management
Regulation, quality improvement and innovation
Wellbeing, mental health and self-care
Workforce

Please select the theme of your submission

Please select the RCN entities working in collaboration on this submission (working in collaboration is desirable, there is no maximum):

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Please note, submissions must be RCN led, external organisations are not eligible to be the main submitting entity or to host a session.

Name and contact details of your professional staff lead who is supporting your submission: If you are holding your session jointly with another RCN entity or external organisation please provide details. Provide name, contact email, phone and external organisation address: It may be possible to offer a different delivery style of presentation at Congress 2025, would you like to be considered for this, should your paper not be selected for a full session?

Congress Education, Learning and Development Programme sessions will all be 45 minutes and will take place at allocated time slots. Please let us know from the following time slots which days you are ABLE to hold your session: Monday lunchtime Monday evening Tuesday breakfast Tuesday lunchtime Tuesday evening Wednesday breakfast Wednesday lunchtime Wednesday evening

Please let us know if you are not able to hold your session on a particular day or if, due to speaker availability, at a particular time (please note we cannot guarantee time slots).

While we try to accommodate all requests, we cannot guarantee that your preferred time and/or date will be available. We will contact all accepted submissions in February 2025 to confirm allocated time slots.

Your proposed Congress Education, Learning and Development Programme session

Title of session. Please ensure the title is succinct and accurately reflects the content and specialism of your session: Describe your session and its purpose in approximately 100 words: Who is your session aimed at? For example, which roles, specialties and grades is it aimed at? Is the content of your session evidence-based? Tell us more about how you will quality-assure your session: Tell us who your session is aimed at 蜜桃直播� if it is aimed at all delegates please describe how you will ensure any differences in policy/legislation between the four countries will be addressed, and how it will apply to the NHS and Independent Sector: How will your session benefit and attract delegates? All sessions should support continuing professional development. Please provide three key learning outcomes for your session: Is your session applicable to students? Is your session applicable to nursing support workers?

Speaker information

Who will be presenting or speaking at the session (including proposed co-presenters):

Please provide names and contact details, if known, and whether they are RCN members or externally invited speakers.

Are you aware of any reason why this session should not be filmed and recorded? Yes No If yes, please give details: Is anyone participating in this session also participating in another proposed session (i.e. speaker or facilitator)? Yes No

This is to help avoid scheduling clashes.

If yes, please provide their names to help avoid scheduling clashes:

Presenters attending Congress exclusively to deliver a ELDP session will be able to claim travel and accommodation expenses in line with the RCN expenses policy. This should be arranged with the relevant supporting RCN Directorate/Department/Professional staff lead who will make the booking through the RCN’s approved travel agent.

The RCN will not pay expenses if the presenter is already funded to attend Congress, and is unable to pay for any additional AV requirements, over and above the standard package, or any other costs related to your session.

Please estimate in £ sterling costs for your proposed session including presenter travel and accommodation and expenses. Please note we are unable to pay speaker fees or honorariums and expenses are paid in line with the RCN expenses policy.

Presenter travel 蜜桃直播� please give an estimated figure for travel costs: How many nights蜜桃直播� accommodation would be required? Anticipated accommodation expenses:

Please refer to the RCN expense policy for guidance on travel and accommodation.

As per the policy, provide justification for accommodation requirements below:

By submitting this form, you are giving the RCN permission to contact you about your submission.

The information you provide in this form will be stored by the RCN.

Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Please view our privacy policy to find out more about the information we collect and how it is used.

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